Germany in talks with countries over deportations of Afghans and Syrians

Germany is in secret talks with various countries to deport criminals from Afghanistan and Syria to their homeland, German interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Sunday.

“For me, German security interests are clearly the top priority. We want to systematically deport Islamist violent criminals. We are negotiating confidentially with various states to make deportations to Afghanistan and Syria possible,” Faeser told the daily Bild am Sonntag.

She said it was important “that the federal police can support the federal states responsible for these deportations as quickly as possible.”

“Whoever does not have the right to stay in Germany will have to leave our country as soon as possible,” she said.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed last month that Germany will start deporting criminals from Afghanistan and Syria again after a knife attack by an Afghan immigrant left one police officer dead and several other people injured.

According to reports, Germany’s government is holding talks with Uzbekistan to enable deportations from Germany to Afghanistan without direct consultations with the Islamic Emirate.

IEA, however, has called on Germany to avoid deportation of Afghans to a third country, but address the matter through normal consular engagement.